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February 2014 - New York, NY - RMS at the Cooper Union, for HuffPost Code and the New York Tech Meetup

Get candidates for this year's European elections to make a stand for free software

Computers in the post-Snowden era: choose before paying!

Document Freedom Day delivers messages of interoperability around the world

The Revolution will be chock-full of non-coders

Help spread the word on the GNU MediaGoblin campaign!

Join the FSF and friends in updating the Free Software Directory

LibrePlanet featured resource: Lobbying government

GNU Spotlight with Karl Berry: 24 new GNU releases!

GNU Toolchain Update

Richard Stallman's speaking schedule and other FSF events

Thank GNUs!

Take action with the FSF!

New highs for LibrePlanet

From March 26th

What does it mean when, over a single year, the number of people
who come to LibrePlanet more than doubles? It means that the free
software movement is strong and growing. It means we have a
fighting chance to protect our freedom and privacy in the digital
world, and that we are inspiring new people to join us.

Richard M. Stallman announced the winners of the FSF's annual Free
Software Awards at a ceremony on Saturday, March 22, 2014, held during the
LibrePlanet 2014 conference at MIT, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Two
awards were given: the Award for the Advancement of Free Software, and
the Award for Projects of Social Benefit.

Replicant developers find and close Samsung Galaxy backdoor

By Paul Kocialkowski, from March 12th

While working on Replicant, a fully free/libre version of Android,
developers discovered that a proprietary program running on the
applications processor implements a backdoor that lets the modem
perform remote file I/O operations on the file system.

Interview with Roman Telezhinsky of Valentina

From March 19th

In this installment of our Licensing and Compliance Lab's series
on free software developers who choose GNU licenses for their
works, we conducted an email-based interview with Roman
Telezhinsky, the lead developer of Valentina, a free software
pattern-making program.

GNU Press releases RUN GCC shirt

From March 19th

Represent GCC with this novelty t-shirt! Printed by a unionized
shop on 100% certified organic cotton, this shirt comes in black
with white lettering framed in red bars. Sizes are available in
both unisex and women's styles.

February 2014 - New York, NY - RMS at the Cooper Union, for HuffPost Code and the New York Tech Meetup

From March 5th

RMS was hosted by HuffPost Code in cooperation with the New York
Tech Meetup and Cooper Union, and was in the the Great Hall of
the Cooper Union's Foundation Building, in New York, NY, on
February 20, 2014, to deliver his speech "A Free Digital Society"
to seven hundred people in attendance.

Get candidates for this year's European elections to make a stand for free software

By FSF Europe, from March 4th

From May 22 to 25, 2014 European citizens will vote for
candidates standing for the European Parliament. This is an ideal
time to engage with politicians with why free software
matters. Help us to get the candidates across Europe to declare
their support for free software.

Help spread the word on the GNU MediaGoblin campaign!

By GNU MediaGoblin, from March 3rd

Can you help GNU MediaGoblin decentralize the Web by sharing their
campaign on your social networks and help get GNU MediaGoblin in the
news? GNU MediaGoblin has also entered the Knight News Challenge, a
grant giving program centered around free expression on the net, and
needs your support.

Join the FSF and friends in updating the Free Software Directory

From March 27th

Tens of thousands of people visit directory.fsf.org each month to
discover free software. Each entry in the Directory contains a
wealth of useful information, from basic category and
descriptions to version control, IRC channels, documentation, and
licensing. The Free Software Directory has been a great resource
to software users over the past decade, but it needs your help
staying up-to-date with new and exciting free software projects.

To help, join our weekly IRC meetings on Fridays. Meetings take
place in the #fsf channel on irc.gnu.org, and usually include a
handful of regulars as well as newcomers. Everyone's welcome.

The next meeting is Friday, April 4, from 2pm to 5pm EDT (18:00
to 21:00 UTC). Details here:

LibrePlanet featured resource: Lobbying government

Every month on LibrePlanet, we highlight one resource that is
interesting and useful -- often one that could use your help.

At LibrePlanet 2014, there was a lot of talk during the "Free
software messaging meeting" on how the free software movement can
promote free software adoption by government organizations.

For this month, we are highlighting the Lobbying government page,
which provides information about advocating software freedom to public
officials. You are invited to adopt, spread and improve this important
resource.

Take action with the FSF

Contributions from thousands of individual members enable the
FSF's work. You can contribute by joining at https://www.fsf.org/join.
If you're already a member, you can help refer new members (and
earn some rewards) by adding a line with your member number to
your email signature like:

The FSF is also always looking for volunteers
(https://www.fsf.org/volunteer). From rabble-rousing to hacking, from
issue coordination to envelope stuffing -- there's something here for
everybody to do. Also, head over to our campaign section
(https://www.fsf.org/campaigns) and take action on software
patents, DRM, free software adoption, OpenDocument, RIAA and
more.